When
I first read about TweetingSeat in an email sent to me, I thought maybe someone was playing a joke on me.
They weren’t and TweetingSeat really does exist!
Designed by Christopher McNicholl, who describes himself as a young and insightful designer, with great enthusiasm for creating exciting, yet practical products, he is originally from Comber, Northern Ireland.
Describing his creation, Christopher writes on his blog:
TweetingSeat is an interactive park bench which is designed to explore the potential for connecting digital and physical communities. The bench logs its usage by uploading images of its users and environment to a live Twitter feed, allowing people to interact with it both in person and virtually.
Created to explore the environments in which it is placed and the people whom it encounters, the aim of TweetingSeat is for people and communities to form their own relationship with the object through the way in which they choose to use it.
Each time someone sits down, TweetingSeat uploads an image from two cameras to the Twitterfeed. One camera is located on the bench looking at the surrounding space, and another is located nearby looking at the people who use it.
Check out the development of TweetingSeat in this archive collection and/or take a few minutes to see how people interact with the TweetingSeat. The whole concept sure does bring a smile to your face, no?
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